Word: hurriedness
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Pitts-Wiley as Leontes was a charismatic physical presence, and his hurried descent into paranoia and nihilism was frightening because it was more than a little persuasive. When an aide questions Leontes’ suspicions, he flies into a nervous rage and delivers Shakespeare’s famous speech of...
Nearing Loeb House, where the Board of Overseers had gathered to dub her Harvard’s president-elect, Drew Gilpin Faust paused and said, “I’d better kiss my husband.” The object of her affection, science historian Charles Rosenberg, told her...
One of theneuroses that afflicts ayouth-obsessed society is the fear that childhood isn't what it used to be. Every few years a new book or magazine article warns that kids are being rushed through childhood with barely a second to skin a knee. This month brings...
The Hurried Child has sold some 500,000 copies, and at 75, Elkind still enjoys an active speaking schedule. The book hypothesized that nearly every social ill affecting kids--drug use, suicide, early sex, bad grades--was rooted in society's relentless message that the young should act older. But...
Last season, the Harvard women’s basketball team grew accustomed to the late-game heroics of guard Laura Robinson ’06.From the point guard spot, Robinson kept the Crimson in close games with a knack for getting into the lane, drawing contact, and nailing last-second...